Much to our excitement it seems like Tiki Themed events are popping up every weekend lately. Since Tiki Oasis (which I'll blog about soon) there have been numerous Tiki events in Southern California. With kids we can't get to all of them, but a couple of weeks ago we decided that since we wanted to get lunch anyway we might as well head to the Tiki Island Expo for lunch to check it out.
The Tiki Island Expo was located in Santa Ana at a large and interesting restaurant called Original Mike's.
It was a large space that accommodated the event well. The event featured music both inside and outside of the restaurant and a lot of Tiki shopping.
We had the baby with us so we couldn't stay as long as I would have liked to see all the music, but we did catch a some of the entertainment which included The Martini Kings
After shopping we had lunch while listening to the Black Ball Bandits inside and then wandered back outside and caught some of Ukulena's performance.
Then we made our way back inside to hear the surf band The Volcanics.
It was a great Tiki event with great music that I wish we could have hung out at a little longer.
Here are some sample pictures of the some of the stuff that they had there Tiki shopping wise.
